Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community.

The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit.

There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.

Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.

I'm an avowed centrist, and I believe that - centrism is often - it's almost the wrong word to use, because it's often seen as sort of splitting the difference between right and left.

Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.